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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

Miss Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the we'll
known poet, says in the New Haven
Palladium: at is true that we are to
leave our MeTiden home as soon as am
strong enough TO travel to some seaside
resort. Our new location for the fall has
not yet been decided upon. We have no
idea of going West, and l do not even
contemplate a visit there this summer.
II is true that in my early residence in the
East thought the people cold and un-
sympathetic missed the warm and
demonstratlve affection which in the
land of my birth my Western friends had
shown for me; but l never had the
egotism to say or think that my literary
attainments were not appreciated here
/ have, on the contrary, felt for several
years that the public at large overesti-
mated me intellectually fact l still
believe to be painfully true. During the
last month of severe illness and extreme
trial, the warm sympathy, tender solicit
tude and overwhelming kindness which
the people of Meriden have exhibited to
me and mine make me thoroughly
ashamed that ever thought them cold
or Indifferent. 1t is a misfortune that
unwise words can never be unsaid-we
can only regret having uttered them"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

The only cities in the United States
having public baths are Boston, with
II; New York, 15; Philadelphia, @;
Brooklyn, 3; Cleveland and Hartford,
each /; and Buffalo, the number not
given. In New York, 3,43l, 0s6 persons
bathed from June to October in 1888
during the same time in Boston, 959, ,665,
and in Brooklyn, 225, ss5. In eighteen
cities where there are no public baths
only about 2S per cent. of the residences
are supplied with bath tubs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

The medicine chest is as much neces-
'sity on trains as on ships. So think the
managers of the Maine Central Railroad,
who have now provided each one Of their
conductors with emergency cases, il
we may so call them, containing, besides
medicines, linen and rubber bandages,
surgical instruments and whatever else
may be needed by the conductor or the
chance doctor in cases of accident.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

A burglar has been writing some of his
experiences for the press. He tells how
himself and fellow thief followed Anna
Dickinson at one time and theatrical
company at another, bought tickets and
sent them as complimentaries to leading
citizens, and then broke into their houses
while the families were enjoying the
complimentary.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07
BEFORE THE RAIN.

The blackcaps pipe among the reeds
And there II be rain to follow;
There is a murmur as Of wind
In every coign and hollow;
The wrens do chatter Of their fears
While swinging on the barley-ears.
Come, hurry, while there yet is time,
Pull up thy scarlet bonnet
Now, sweetheart, as my love is thine.
There is a drop upon it.
So trip it ere the storm-hag weird
Doth pluck the barley by the beard.
Lo! not whit too soon we're housed;
The storm-with yells above us;
The branches rapping on the panes
Seem not in truth TO love us.
And look where through the clover busI
The nimble footed rain doth rushl
Amelia RiUeS, IN Hdrper's.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07
The largest Wheat y cid.

One of the largest wheat fields in the
world is that of ex-Congressman c. F..
Reed, of Stanislaus county, California.
Ii consists of 10, 900 acres in one unbroken
stretch along the bank of the San joaquin
river, and much of the land is protected
by levees, as the stream is higher thar
the shore. The grain this year is as high
as the back of horse and il is estimated
the yield will be forty bushcl to the acre.
This will give 400, 900 bushels, which
will load ten large vessels.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07
THE DEAD SUMNER.

What lacks the summer!
Not roses blowing,
Nor tall white lilies with fragrance rife,
Nor green things gay with the bliss of grow
ing,
Nor glad things drunk with the wine of life,
Nor flushing Of clouds in blue skies shining,
Nor soft wind murmurs 10 rise and fall,
Nor birds for singing, nor vines for twining-
Three little buds miss, no more,
That blossomed last year at my garden
And that is all.
What lacks the summeri
Not waves quiver
With arrows Of light from the hand of
dawn,
Nor dropping Of boughs by the dimpling
river,
Nor nodding Of grass on the windy lawn,
Nor tides unswept upon silver beaches,
Nor rustic Of leaves on treetops tall,
Nor dabble Of shade in the woodland reaches
Life pulses gladly on vale and hill,
But three little hearts that l love are
still
And that is all.
What lacks the summeri
Oh, light and SAVIOR,
And message Of healing ths world above!
Gone is the old-time strength and flavor,
Gone is its old time peace and love
Gone is the bloom of the shimmering
meadows,
Music OF birds as they sweep and fall
All the great world is dim with shadow,
Because no longer mine eyes can see
The eyes that made summer and life for
me-
And that is all
Boston Traveller
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
How to Clean Lace.

Fill bottle with cold water; draw a
stocking tightly over it, securing both
ends firmly. Place the lace smoothly
over the stocking and tack closely. Put
the bottle in a Kettle of cold water con-
tanning few shavings of soap, and place
over the fire to boil Rinse in several
waters and then drain and dry. When
dry remove and place smoothly in large
book and press with weights. Very nice
lace can be made to look new by this pro-
cess.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

There is standing prize, to be
awarded by the Academy of Sciences,
Paris, to whoever shall find an efiicacious
remedy for Asiatic cholera, or shall dis
cover the cause of this terrible scourge.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

Acting Secretary Muldrow, of the in.
terror department, recently rendered a
decision, according to married women
the right to enter and purchase timber
and stone lands, under the law governing
the sale of such lands, in the States of
Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Nevada,
Oregon and Washington Territory.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

Mrs Beecher seems unable, since her
husbands death, to remain long away
from Brooklyn. Her white and pathet-
ically composed face is seen among the
Plymouth parishioners every few weeks,
though nominally she is spending the
season at Stamford.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07
A BasebalI TragedY.

He left his home by the ligh a day,
With base all nine he had ~Jnised 10 play,
Aud he donnei his suit Of fine array,
He knew he would win. hr felt SO COY,
All thoughts of ill-lucl be woud throttle.
He came back bone az th' dea OF night,
He was all "bungsd' up, m terrible pASat,
His broken bones were a fe ITlul s.sht,
And he pitcho his voice ~ IN all his might
Gosh Nh ,"3 IS t'at elnct totLet
-EcDI I0f s san.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07

: An experienced barber says that it is
decidedly dangerous for men who are
being shaved to read newspapers; that
BARRIERS arc opposed to the practice, be-
cause the razor is held very lightly, and
the newspaper is apt to strike the handle
and cause a cut.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-09-07
RArEs on ApVERTIsINc.

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Legal advertisements ten cents per line each in
sertiOn.
Marriage and death notices gratia
All bills for yearly advertisements collected omar
,terly. Temporary advertisements must Be paio in
advance.
Job work-eash on daiiverv.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07
The Wheeling Incident.

The night before the parade of the
Grand Army at Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, the editor of a democratic paper
hung out banner with portrait of
President Cleveland and some fulsome
laudatory expressions concerning him.
The editor anticipated that some of the
old soldiers who had not forgotten the
Presidents pension vetoes, his letters
regarding the Grand Army and the
rebel-hags incident, would decline to
march under this extemporized banner,
and he was not disappointed. 1t was a
shabby political dodge, and the veter-
ans who refused to march under the
banner demonstrated their disapproval
of the attempt to lead them into par
tisan trap. OF course the democratic
press of the country have interpreted
the conduct of the veterans as an in
suit to the President. We think the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07
Plain Talk from an "Old Granger
and Farmers

Editor an.-Enclosed find two
dollars in renewal of my subscription for
the WATCHMAN. 1t seems to treat fairly the
subject of monopolies, now so much agitat-
ing the public mind, and does not truckle
to the prejudices of a portion of the public
to gain favor, as some other journals do.
Although | am and have been Patron of
Husbandry since its earliest organization,
and also farmer, | cannot approve of the
intense bigotry and partisan hate of the
Il. !. against railroads and railroad men,
and assure you that large portion of the
members of the grange do not approve of
the extreme measures advocated by its ed
itors, and intended to break down all Ner-
mont railroads and all corporations owned
by Nermonters. The r. Y. is doing the
work of certain demagogues who desire of
flee, but have never been successful in OBJ
tanning it, and who now pose as friends of
farmers and are ready to serve them and
make them believe the only way to political
or financial success is to break down all
who are connected with any railroad or
other corporate enterprises and all who do
not work to elevate to Office the II. VS. real
olCnerS and their special friends. You will
soon see it and its fellow-laborer, the Lon
donderry SITTER and some other cranks dis
intereStediy advocating one of the thousand
dollar owners of the II. Y. Ga man who has
money invested in other similar small fry)
as the peoples and farmers especial candi-
date for governor. They will all proclaim
at once that the people have discovered an
honest man who is not railroad man, and
who is not an otfice-seeker and are going
to make him governor! They are now en-
gagged in trying to kill off Lieutenant-gov-
ernor Fuller and all other probable candi-
dates, and occasionally limiting at but not
advocating their own candidate (and let me
add their real owner while he is behind the
curtain with his barrel on tap and they are
accusing others of using money to influence
the press and public opinion The great out
cry of the r. Y. and others of its illx against
monopoly, railroads, etc, is only demagogic
and to gain popularity and votes for their
real owners, and is more simulated than
real. The grange and public will in time
discover the real animus of the editors, who
have all at once discovered how the farm
ers have been wronged and how these edit
ors are their natural gudrdidnS-editors who
neuer kReW the farmer had wrongs and
sneered at the grange until the barrel had
been tapped and some grange officer had
assured them that the grange could be used
to elevate their friends to office by ringing
the charges on the farmers wrongs and de-
nouncing railroads and all other corpora
tions. No question but the farmer has many
wrongs, but wholesale denunciaton of one
class of politicians by another never will
right them. / cannot conceive how intelli-
gent farmers and grangers can help seeing
how they are to be used, bought and sold in
the market by certain journals to support
class of cheap politicians who never could
get Office in any other way.
AN OLD GRANGER AND FARMRR.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07
Pennsylvania Democrats.

1t was generally expected that the
democratic state convention of Pennsyl-
yania, held last week, would determine
whether the democrats of that state
would stand by President Cleveland or
follow Mr.. Randall. Itappears to have
done both to some extent Claims and
counter-claims are made by democratic
journals concerning the result. On
the one side it is claimed that the re-
suit is more gratifying to the champions
of the Presidents tariff policy than to
the Randall faction. Mr.. Singerly of
the Philadelphia Record, who is pro-
nounced free-trader and a sturdy op-
ponent of Mr.. Randall, puts it in this
way: "Cleveland was endorsed, but
Randall was endorsed between the
lines" On the morning of the con-
vention Mr. Singerly's paper declared
that :" if Randall controlled the action of
the convention the democratic party in
Pennsylvania would practically step
upon the republican platform and be
lost in that organization" Mr.. Ran
dall's friends claim that he won sub
stantial triumph; but after all the only
disputed plank in the platform-that
which refers to the tariff-reads like a
compromise. Besides reaffirming the
two-face, straddling, unmeaning tariff
declaration in the Chicago platform of
1884, the convention demanded that
" the current unnecessary increase be-
yond the needs of the government be
Immediately prevented by wise and
prudent reduction of internal taxation
and duties on imports, in accordance
with the foregoing declarations" which
may mean much or little. Probably
the action of the Pennsylvania demo-
Gratis may be interpreted as temporary
postponement of the contest between
Mr. Randall and his opponents, at least
until after the election, but it will GER
tainly be renewed in congress next
winter
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07
Notes and Opinions.
fort.

THE Duke of Marlboro, speaking of
Mr.. Blaine, says he " is rather an
tagonistc to English ideas" Well,
rather.
If Blaine had been elected president
and had stabbed civil service reform as
fatally as Cleveland has done how the
mugwumps would have howledl
THE President is the massive link
which practically unites George William
Curtis and Higgins in the same political
organization .-Mil,Caukee Sentinel.
IT is generally accepted that 1888
will not be good year for dark horses.
A leader whom the people know is
what we are looking for. Hartford
Post.
HARPER's WEEKLY says New York
is " the only democratic state to pass a
civil service reform law" BY re-
publican legislature, every democrat
voting emo"
MRS. CLEVELAND is tracing the
genealogy of her husband. This is at
all times dangerous experiment and
liable to end in manner not contem-
plated by the plorer.-Baltimore
American.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
" the civil service commissioners want
an organ" There was one here two OF
three weeks ago that was much out OF
tune; that would be just the thing for
the commission.
THE tone of an editorial in last
weeks II. Y. on the political situa-
ton gives the democrats considerable
comfort and occasions much unfavor.
able comment among republicans. But
what reason have republicans for ex,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07
The Interstate Railroad Hearing.

The hearing by the interstate commerce
commission on the petitions of the Boston
Albany Railroad Company and of the
master of the Vermont State Grange against
the Central Vermont Railroad Company and
the National Dispatch line, charging viola
tions of the law in making determinations
in freight rates. was begun at Rutland
September l. The full commission was
present. The various roads interested
were represented by counsel as follows:
Samuel Hoar, Esq, of Boston for the Bos-
ton & Albany A. A. Strout, Esq, of Portland,
and w. H. Coolidge of Boston for the Bos-
ton & Lowell; b. f. Fiheld, Esq, of Mont
pelier for the Central Vermont; C.. A.
Prouty, Esq, of Newport for the Rutland
railroad; Senator Edmunds and eX-United
States District Attorney Haskins in behalf
of the state grange. Among prominent
railroad men in attendance were President
j. Gregory Smith, General Traffic Manager
John Porteous, Second Vice-president f. g..
Smith, Superintendent of Local Traffic f..
A. Chittenden and Secretary George L.
Childs of the Central Vermont; General
Superintendent c. S. Mellen and General
Traffic Manager G. n. Turner of the Boston
& Lowell; General Traffic Manager Arthur
Mills of the Boston & Albany; Superintend-
ent III. Il. Chamberlin of the Concord; Gen
eral Traffic Manager l.. j. Sargent of the
Grand Trunk railroad, and Superintendent
George E. Todd of the Northern railroad.
The morning was mostly occupied by the
reading of the complaints and answers filed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07
Politics of the Soldiers.

In the discussion of Grand Army
matters, recently, several democratic
papers have indiscreetly raised the
question regarding the proportion of
the soldiers in the war of the rebellion
who were democrats. One paper has
asserted that the number of democrats
fully equaled the number of republic
cans, and John d. Spellman, Rutland
democrat, in a recent communication
stated that the democratic party put
$4,000 more men in the field than the
republicans. That there were num-
bers of brave and gallant democratic
soldiers in the Union army no one will
deny, and they are entitled to as much
honor as soldiers who were republic
cans. There were "war democrats :"
both in and out of the army who did
not support the policy of the demo-
cratic party in regard to the war; never
theless, for reasons satisfactory to them
selves, they continued to act with that
party. But the claim of the democratic
press that anything like an equal num-
Der of the soldiers were democrats is
disproved by the records. In the presi-
dental election of 1864 twelve of the
states made provision to have the
soldiers in field and camp vote for
president. OF the 154 ,054 votes cast
by soldiers Lincoln received 1873
and Mcclellan "a, POI. The tables of
the vote cast by states shows that in
the aggregate the republican voters in
the army outnumbered the democratic
voters four to one, except among Ken
lucky troops, who gave Mcclellan a
majority. The proportion among the
Iowa soldiers was nearly fourteen re-
publicans to one democrat: in Maine,
seven to one; in Pennsylvania, two to
one; in Ohio, four to one; in Wisconsin,
five to one; in California, one to ten; in
Vermont, six to one. 1t is quite safe
to estimate that less than one-quarter
of the soldiers in field and camp in 1864
were democrats. There were many
reasons, which it is needless to recall
at this time, why there were more re-
publicans than democrats in the Union
army. The republicans do not par
ticularly care to revive the discussion
of these matters, but inasmuch as demo-
cratic papers have misstated the facts
to serve partisan purpose, it becomes
the duty of republican papers to state
them correctly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07

Philadelphia Press hits the nail squarely
on the head in the following comments:
When the veterans of the Union are
called in legitimate way TO recognize the
President they will respect the President
as the chief magistrate of the nation. When
the attempt is made to force or trap them
into an apparent endorsement of Grover
Cleveland as a politician they will resent
and resist it. They honor the office, as
every citizen does. They dislike and
condemn the man, as they have a right
and reason to do. If their duty to the EN-
bodiment of law and authority is invoked
they will meet it. If their feelings toward
the individual is challenged they will not
hesitate to show it. That is what the dem
onstration at Wheeling means, and it is
well for the President and everybody else to
understand il.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-07

that a high tariff has enabled the farmer
to sell the most of his products in the
United States without going to the
trouble of exporting them.
ONE of the " inspiring" hymns sung
with great voice and gusto at the SYRIA
cuse prohibition convention had this
remarkable stanza:
"No wonder Blaine who lives in Maine,
Has gone to Ireland to ease his pain
Republicans, republicans,
He sees the writing on the wall,
But It's no use for him to bawl,
Well fix him one year from this fall,
Republicans, republicans"
What we should like to have pointed
out particularly in this choice verse is
the exact line where prohibition senti-
ment and hatred of the liquor traffic is
set forth. 1t looks amazingly like
Blaineophobia. -Hdrtord Post.
THE Boston Record of Saturday pub
fishes the following report of an inter-
view with Colonel George w. Hooker
by its correspondent in New York.
Colonel Hooker said: Ex-senator Ed
munds is not presidential candidate.
He is content to remain in the high
position he now occupies as leader of
his party in the senate. His power is
greater than if he were president We
know that Mr.. Blaine is the coming
man, and Vermont will give her usual
majority for him. l believe Mr.. Blaine
will be nominated on the first ballot by
reclamation. If New York sends a
united delegation for him l know he
will be nominated unanimously. But
even if he does not get single dele
gate from New York he can easily be
nominated. Our state, however, in
tends to support heartily the nominee,
whoever he may be. AS to whether
Vermont will send delegation for Mr.
Blaine, that is another question. The
delegates will probably go unin-
structed."
LAST week the r. Y. waved signals
of distress in frantic appeals from its
numerous editors for an increase of
circulation, lest what was assumed to
be long-felt want should become a
short-felt want, so to speak, and its
syndicate of editors be forced to
abandon their work of deluding the
farmers for some more reputable en-
ployment. We were much amused
with its absurd claim of the great things
it has accomplished, particularly in the
legislature last fall, because we remem-
Der that one of its pet projects received
but six votes in the senate and another
eight votes in the house. Several of
the measures which it zealouslv advo-
Gated were killed and others which it
strenuously opposed were carried. If
this may be called a success, then we
shall have to find a new definition for
the word failure. As to the Board of
Agriculture, that was saved by the
efforts of several influential members,
rather than by newspaper influence.
The r. Y. also refers to the campaign
of 1888. With its mugwump editor,
a democratic free-trade editor and an
alleged republican and protectionist
editor, its political complexion in next
years campaign will be about as clear
as mud.